The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-15

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ftable returns. As the volume and divers.
ity of our National activities increase new re-
cruits are added to those who desire a con-
tinuation of the new advantages which they
conceive the present system Of tariff taxa
tion directly offered them.
So stubbornly have all efforts to reform
the present condition been resisted by those
of our fellow -oitizens thus engaged that
they can hardly complain of the suspicion.
entertained to certain extent that there ex-
lists an organized combination all along the
line to maintain their advantage. We are in
the midst of centennial celebrations and
with becoming pride we rejoice in Ameri-
can skill and ingenuity in American energy
and enterprise. and in the wonderful natu.
raj advantages and resources developed by
century's National growth. Yet when an
attempt il made to Justify A scheme which
permits a tax to be laid unon every con.
sumer in the land for the hensft of our
manufacturers quite bevond a reasonable
demand for governmental regard. it suits
the purposes Of advocacy to call our manu-
factures infant industries still needing the
highest and greatest degree of favor and
fastening care that can be wrunr from
federal legislation. IL In also stated that
the increase in the price of domestic manu-
factures resulting from the present tariff is
necessary in order that higher wages NAV be
paid to our workingmen employed in manu-
factories than are paid for what ID called
the pauper labor of Europe.
All will ackno Wedge the force of an argu-
ment which involves the welfare and liberal
compensation of our labor IL honorable in
the eyes of every American citizen; and as
"a A.
and progress, it is entitled, without affecta-
tion or hypooraoy, to the utmost regard.
The standard of our laborer's life should not
be measured by that of any other country
less favored, and they are entitled to their
full share Of our advantages. By the last
census it is made to appear that of the H.
392,0 ,099 of our population engaged in all
kinds of industries, 1870, 493 are employed
in agriculture, 4,014, 23S in professional and
personal service, (2,934, $40 Of whom are
domestic servants and laborers,) while
l,SlO, S5b are employed in trade and trans
portation, and :, 1857, 1l2 are classed as EN-.
ployed in manufacturing and mining.
For present purposes however. the last
number given should be considerably re-
duced. Without attempting to enumerste
all, it will be conceded that there should bs
deducted from those which it includes 375,-
143 carpenters and joiners, 285, 40l milliners,
dressmakers and seamstresses; l72, 726 black
smiths, l33, 756 tailors and tailoresses, l02,
473 masons, 76, 24l butchers a, 800 bakers,
q, ,0S3 plasterers, and 4, S91 engaged In man.
ufacturing agricultural implements,
amounting in the aggregate to :,s14,02
leaving 2, 623, 069 persons employed in such
manufa acturine industries AZ are claimed TO
be beneftted by a high tariff. To these the
appeal ia made to save their employ ment,
and maintain their wages by resisting
change.
There should be no disposition to answer
snch suopastions bv the auecation that tbev
ara in n minority among thosa who labor
and therefore shopld forage an advantape'
in the interest of low prices for the ma
iority: their compensation. as IL NAV be af !.
fected bv the operation of tariff laws.
should at all tinas ha scrunulouslv liant in
view. and vet with slipht rsnletion thew
will not overlook the fact that thew ara con
aun,ara with the rast, that tbav too have
their own wants and those of their families
to sunnlv from the earnings. and that the
nrice of the necessaries of life az well as
the amount of their wages. will regulate the
measure of their welfare and comfort But
the reduction of taxation demanded should
| he 50 measured as not to necessitate or ius.
| fifv tho 1oca of r,lOVmaUf nv tha working
man nor lessen his wages. the profits still
| remaining to the msnufaoture r after a
nacassarv road ;ustuant shonld furnish NO
excrse for the Sacrifice Of the interested of
| his en,nIoves either in their onnortunitv tn
work or in the deminutien of their oomnen-
| sation- Nor can the worker in msnufao-
| tures fail to understand E,at while a high
tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow
| the navment of remuneratiye warers il GER
| tainly resulted in a very large increase in
the price of nearly all sorts of manufac-
lures which. in almost countless forms, he
needs for the use of himself and his family.
He receives at the desk of his EMPLOYER his
wages and perhaps before he reaches his
| home is obliged in purchase for family
| ,1ss of an article which embraces his own
| labor to return in the payment of the in
crease in price which the tariff permits the
hard earned comuensation of m any days of
foil
The farmer and the arrioulturalist who
manufacture nothing but who pay the in
creased price which the tariff imposes. upon
avarv agricuJtural implement unon all ba
wears and upon all he uses and owns. ex.
cont tho increase Of his f,ocks and hards and
sucb things as in bis hushandrv nrodnca,
from the soil is invited 10 aid in main
tanning the present situation. and he is told
that q HIGH dutv ON imported wool ia neces-
sarv for the benefit of those who have sheen
to shear. in order that the price of their
wool NAV be increased. They. of course.
are not reminded that the farmer who hes
no sheen is this scheme obliged, in his pur.
chases Of clothing and woolen goods, to pav
a trihute to his fellow farmer az we'll as to
the manufacturer and merchant: nor is any
mention made of the fact that the sheen
owners themselves and their housebolds
must wear clothing and uss other articles
manufactured from the wool. They sell at
tariff nrices and thus as consumers must
ratI,r, THAR share of this increased nrica 70
Tho tradosm.n
+hinL Il NAV ho fs;r,v o..rro, +s.t i.
-. -,,.n',or.ia-, oe tha sha,,, ,.,n1 ~ - :"
earseors tbronrho,,t tho countrv va fo,'nS '.1
in small f,ock, nnmberino from twenty va
f., fiftv The dutv on this grade of imnortad
wool which these sheep Weld ia ten cents
a,cb Mound If of the value of thirty Giants or
loss and twaIve csnts If of tho vslna q,
,,ora than thirty cants r. the lihsroI osti.
,,,ato Of civ nonrds ha aIIowad Co., 90 a,
49, tho dutv tbaraon would ba sixtv or
ao,-a,,fi : t7vo cs,t. and this nav h. toLo,
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